James:
Just last weekend I installed the fuel pump on my '51 Chevy pickup w/216.
I cannot imagine the pump for the 216 and 235 is different. The glass bowl
faces UP on my pump.
I also had trouble making the pump fit into the block. The pump arm rides
on a special cam on the crankshaft. What I did was to turn the engine a bit
until the cam was in the "right" position (I guess).
I was getting really ticked off because the pump just wouldn't fit correctly
and then bingo it slid right in and lined up.
I don't know what to tell you but that's what happened to me.
Coincidentally, I installed a rebuilt fuel pump in my '55 Mercury this
weekend and had the same kind of problems. On that on the fuel bowl faces
down.
Good luck and keep trying. The owners manual (not the service manual) shows
the pum on the block. If you get desparate I can scan the page and email
you a picture.
Bruce Marshall
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Collins" <jxc7@psu.edu>
To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 9:11 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] Fuel Pump
> A while ago I purchased a fuel pump (normal style, no glass or vacuum
> assist) for my 50 Chevy PU w/235. The engine is said to be from a 1953
> Chevy auto. Engine I.d. places it on the assembly line February 1953. The
> pump doesn't seem to fit. Can't recall the orientation of the old one I
> removed, that is: which end is up? Inside the small rectangular hole there
> sits a shinny cylindrical roller. I can't get the foot on the pump to fit
> in and align with the bolt holes in either direction. Is there somthing
I'm
> missing here? Recently I reordered new pump thinking perhaps I mistakenly
> ordered the wrong one. The new box contained the exact same pump. (Sorry
> LCM I will be returning it to you soon) Don't ask me what I did with the
> one that was originally on the truck, I've had the whole thing pulled
apart
> too long to remember where I put it, I wish I were perfect, sorry. Am I on
> the right track thinking that most 235's take a common fuel pump and that
> beyond the glass/vac choice there's not much to it? If so, that would
leave
> some method or proceedure that isn't particularly obvious or it's
something
> worse?
>
> Fuelishly,
>
> James
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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